noob can't install VirtualBox 4.1.8 onto Solaris 11 11/11
772452Feb 20 2012 — edited Feb 21 2012deepest apologies if this being posted in the wrong forum; moderators: please move as appropriate.
i have been trying for 3 days to install VirtualBox onto Solaris 11 ... unyielding frustration.
i followed the user's manual punctiliously: signed in as root, gunzip'd VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.tar.gz to /home/nweissma/Desktop and then pkgadd .. THE TERMINAL OUTPUT FOLLOWS:
Password:
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 11.0 November 2011
root@new-host:~# cd /home/nweissma/Desktop
root@new-host:/home/nweissma/Desktop *# ls*
addmoresoftware.desktop Terminal_VBInstallFrustration
autoresponse VB-Install_NowWhat.png
LICENSE VB-Install_WhatNow_2.png
os-next-steps.desktop VB-Install_WhatNow_3.png
ReadMe.txt VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS-r75467.pkg
root@new-host:/home/nweissma/Desktop *# pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg*
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- open of <VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg> failed, errno=2
pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from <VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg>
root@new-host:/home/nweissma/Desktop# cd ..
what am i doing wrong?
before rukbat gets upset, i will say that i posted something similar to this on the VirtualBox forum, but i have not received a response in more than 24 hours - nor am i expecting one.
Edited by: Neal Weissman on Feb 20, 2012 11:41 PM